NFC West News and Rumors

Two straight days of practice for San Francisco 49ers cornerback Carlos Rogers has him believing he’ll be ready for Sunday’s NFC Championship game against the Seattle Seahawks. Rogers has missed San Francisco’s first two playoff games after suffering a …

Five days after suffering a concussion in a divisional-round win over the Saints, Seattle receiver Percy Harvin has not received clearance to practice. With three days to go until the NFC title game, it’s not looking good for Harvin. The good news for t…

Baldwin has no issue with Harbaugh

RENTON, Wash. -- Doug Baldwin had made up his mind. He was leaving Stanford. His ongoing conflicts with Jim Harbaugh, the Stanford head coach at the time, were more than he could take. Baldwin was headed to Vanderbilt for his junior year. “I had already…

The Seahawks are preparing to face the 49ers for the third time this season and we’ll be spending some time with one key member of the Seattle defense on Thursday’s Pro Football Talk on NBCSN to get his thoughts on the matchup. Seahawks safety Kam Chanc…

Seahawks fans! 49ers fans! Here is a way for you to one-up and trash-talk each other, without annoying the crap out of the rest of us: See which fan base can donate more money to a worthy cause in each other's city.Read more...

No one this season has encroached as spectacularly as 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks encroached last week against the Panthers. And he said it was absolutely on purpose. Brooks said his flying leap over his defensive line, the Panthers offensive line and…

ST. LOUIS -- Less than 24 hours after the St. Louis Rams' 2013 season had come to an end with a blowout loss to Seattle, coach Jeff Fisher was asked how his team can catch up to the Seahawks and the rest of the NFC West. The Seahawks’ dominant defense, …

My 2013 Cardinals postseason awards

TEMPE, Ariz. -- With the 2013 season not even in the books for three weeks, it was time to decide who was the best of the best for the Arizona Cardinals this past year. My inaugural postseason awards were both standard and outside the box. So, without f…

Seattle teacher trying to fund Seahawks jerseys for kids who can’t afford them

A Seattle teacher loves that his school, Kimball Elementary, shows its spirit by letting the kids wear sports jerseys on Fridays to support their local teams. But he hates the fact that not all the kids can afford them. Kevin Zelko teaches special educa…

If the Seattle Seahawks win Sunday and advance to the Super Bowl, we have an early favorite for Media Day darling. He's brash. He's talented. He gets in opponents' faces. And he's almost certain to play a part in the victory if they win. He's Richard Sh…

The Seahawks have, in the opinion of some, perfected the art of pass interference. Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman, however, sees it as the Seahawks perfecting the art of football. On Wednesday, Sherman addressed with reporters the value of physicali…

TEMPE, Ariz. -- I spent six years total in the state of Indiana -- four at Indiana University for undergrad, one writing for a newspaper in Northwest Indiana and another in Indianapolis for grad school -- all during Peyton Manning's tenure with the Colt…

NFLN survey/franchise player: Cardinals

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Imagine if we’re talking about the Arizona Cardinals starting their team with Peyton Manning? It nearly happened. He was courted by the Cardinals in 2012 and the trajectory of the franchise could’ve been changed forever had Manning opted…

49ers coach Jim Harbaugh channelled Johnny Cash this week when he said that the 49ers have “been everywhere” over the last few seasons. Norv Turner doesn’t wear all black, but he may also identify with Cash’s tune after working for eight different teams…

PFT’s conference championship game picks

It was another 2-2 week for yours truly in the divisional round, picking correctly the Seahawks and Broncos and incorrectly the Colts and Panthers. MDS swapped out the Pats for the Colts, and he’s picked up a one-game lead with three games left. But the…

In the last two seasons, the San Francisco 49ers are 2-0 against the Seattle Seahawks when Frank Gore runs for 100 yards. The 49ers are 0-2 when he’s been all but shutdown by Seattle’s defense. While who will win the NFC Championship game on Sunday prob…